Added Content: Allow fake ISBNs to be sent to providers
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Evergreen |
Fix Released
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Medium
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2.8 |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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2.9 |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is related to bug 1549393.
Currently the added content module uses Business::ISBN to validate ISBN's before they are sent to the content providers. It filters out the unofficial ISBN's that Baker & Taylor use for their DVDs. Those ISBN's are rejected because they have an unknown group/country code since they were not actually issued by Bowker.
But Content Cafe will happily return results for those ISBN's since Baker & Taylor makes sure they are registered for the titles they sell. I don't know if other providers have those ISBN's registered as well.
So it would be nice if the added content module allowed ISBN's with invalid country/group codes through. So lookups would work for items that only have an unofficial ISBN listed.
Thanks
Josh
Changed in evergreen: | |
milestone: | none → 2.10.2 |
no longer affects: | evergreen/2.10 |
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importance: | Undecided → Medium |
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milestone: | 2.10.2 → 2.10.3 |
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milestone: | 2.10.3 → 2.10.4 |
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milestone: | 2.10.4 → 2.10.5 |
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milestone: | 2.10.5 → 2.10.6 |
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status: | New → Fix Committed |
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status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Josh-
There might be other good reasons for relaxing our ISBN validation, such as not needing to worry about keeping our local (or packaged) copy of RangeMessage.xml up-to-date.
Can you provide any additional background or sample data?
Does B&T document their practice anywhere, either in Content Cafe documentation or elsewhere?
Can you provide some sample "fake ISBN" values and their expected pairings with titles?
Thanks,
-jeff